COMPUTER SIMULATION MODEL FOR THE DESIGN OF AIRPORT TERMINAL BUILDINGS

The computer simulation model is intended as an appraisal tool in the designing of airport terminal buildings such that the efficiency of alternative design solutions can be readily compared. This is essentially a "queueing model" in which all possible activities in the terminal building are represented as a network of activity nodes. The simulation is time-based and monitors the variation in queue sizes over the time period being simulated for a given throughput of passengers, visitors, greeters etc. The model is deterministic and does not consider the effect of stochastic variations in service time. It is argued that such variations have little effect on systems as large and complex as airport terminals, however, the inclusion of such techniques in the model is being investigated.

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• Corporate Authors:

  IPC Science and Technology Press Limited

  IPC House, 32 High Street
  Guildford, Surrey  England 
• Authors:
  • Laing, LWW
• Publication Date: 1975-1

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 37-42
• Serial:
  • Computer Aided Design
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Butterworth Scientific Limited
  • ISSN: 0010-4485

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Design; Determinants (Mathematics); Monitoring; Queuing theory; Simulation; Stochastic processes; Terminal operations
• Uncontrolled Terms: Deterministic models
• Old TRIS Terms: Queueing models; Terminal design and operations
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Data and Information Technology; Design; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00163496
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 28 1977 12:00AM